missing 'xor' Boolean operator

Nobody nobody at nowhere.com
Thu Jul 16 16:29:07 EDT 2009


On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:14:10 +0200, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:

>> If the question was "Why is there no 'or' operator ?", would "because
>> A or B <=> not(not A and not B)" be a proper answer ?
> 
> Note that in Python A or B is in fact not equivalent to not(not A and
> not B).

Ah, but it *is* "equivalent"; it isn't "identical", but that's not the
point.




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